Raphaela
22 Jul 2024
The Digital Archive Project includes carefully documented and curated data on everything LGBTQ+ in Ghana from 1960 to 2024 into 10,000+ files and 35 gigabytes worth of data.
As a community member, you may have heard of the RDDM Project. It stands for Research, Data and Documentation Management Project. No? We’ve been emailing a number of you religiously, every quarter, with updates. Still no? Okay, I’ll tell you all about it. The RDDM Project was started in 2022 to gather and document all data relating to LGBTQ+ people in Ghana from pre to post colonial times. Imagine that. Academic writing, tweets, articles, news clippings, research papers, soundbites from radio interviews, recordings from television shows and interviews, songs about and by openly queer Ghanaians all in one large archive. That was the RDDM Project, which is now the Digital Archive Project.